Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:29:00

Concerts under the Olympic cauldron, framed by the arches that watched the 1932 and 1984 Games - the LA Coliseum turned its most iconic corner into a venue. The Torch, at the east end of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (enter Gate 4 at 3911 South Figueroa Street), officially ignited in August 2021. The venue occupies Peristyle Plaza beneath the Coliseum's cauldron and the famous peristyle arches: tree-lined lawns, vintage ticket booths repurposed as full-service bars, and the Olympic Gateway sculpture commissioned for the 1984 Games. The format is general-admission and open-air, with flexible capacity from about 3,500 up to 10,000 depending on configuration, built around an SL320 mobile stage - festival infrastructure inside a National Historic Landmark. The booking has leaned electronic: Insomniac events, Marshmello, Svdden Death's VOYD, Flux Pavilion, Audien's progressive-house showcases and the Emo Nite collaboration GRAVE, alongside hip-hop dates from Lil Wayne and Big Boi. The venue emerged from the pandemic moment - conceived when full-stadium events were impossible - but survived it because the economics work: Exposition Park location, existing stadium services, and a size band between the Shrine and a stadium floor that Los Angeles otherwise lacks outdoors. The operational details are stadium-grade: cashless service, stadium Wi-Fi, rideshare drop inside the park and the Coliseum's event staff running gates - a plug-and-play open-air room in the middle of the city. With the 2028 Olympics returning to the Coliseum, The Torch doubles as a preview: the plaza where the Games' history is displayed is already back in the live-event business year-round. The setting gives every show a scale trick no purpose-built venue can copy: the crowd dances on lawns where Olympic ceremonies formed up, the DJ booth sits under the cauldron lit for the Games, and the peristyle arches frame the stage lighting against ninety years of stadium history - a backdrop that has made the venue a fixture of Los Angeles festival photography.